Emily Leathers
Founder & Executive Coach at Exceptional Leadership
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEmily Leathers is a seasoned engineering leader and founder with 15 years of experience building and scaling backend and trust-and-safety platforms at companies like Pinterest and Brigade. As Founder of Exceptional Leadership she blends hands-on technical credibility with executive coaching to help leaders create equitable, anti‑racist, high‑performance teams that avoid burnout. At Pinterest she led Trust & Safety engineering and platform teams, driving technical culture, API and core platform work that supported hundreds of millions of queries. Emily’s background in data-intensive systems and early research at Carnegie Mellon gives her a strong grounding in algorithms, ML-informed pipelines, and operational rigor. Based in San Francisco, she hires and mentors tech leads while offering 1:1 coaching to help leaders align product, people, and purpose. An uncommon combination of deep engineering chops and facilitation skills makes her effective at turning complex technical challenges into sustainable team practices.
15 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
B.S. Computer Science minor in Mathematics, B.S. Computer Science minor in Mathematics at Carnegie Mellon University
Github Skills (32)
large-data5
read-write5
hook5
dwarf4
capacity4
batch4
throughput3
versioning3
react3
transactional3
git-hooks3
in-memory2
key-value2
low-latency2
consensus2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
eleather/women-in-software-eng
Apr 2016 - Oct 2017
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
triketora/women-in-software-eng
Nov 2013 - Oct 2017
Crowdsourced repository of women in software engineering stats.
Contributions:3 commits, 2 PRs in 3 years 11 months
engineeringstatswomencrowdsourced
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